Managed pipelines – Our first CI/CD

Now we have everything in place to create our first Power Platform CI/CD pipeline with the help of the built-in capabilities of the platform.

Power Platform pipelines

Power Platform pipelines are CI/CD pipelines managed by the platform. They provide ALM features to build and deploy our solutions in a fully automated way without having deep knowledge of DevOps tools, such as Azure DevOps Services or GitHub Enterprise. Of course, we can integrate those tools into our managed pipelines to store the managed and unmanaged solutions in Git repositories as well, but it is not mandatory. The idea of the Power Platform pipelines is to democratize the build and release processes and to provide an easy-to-configure and easy-to-use experience for administrators and developers.

Platform Pipeline is a Dynamics 365 application that we need to install in one of our environments. For the built-in pipeline management, we only need to have Managed Environments...